{"id":931054,"date":"2025-05-15T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931054"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:59:47","slug":"microsoft-ai-director-laid-off-in-bloodbath-triggered-by-ai-push-asked-to-stop-work-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/15\/microsoft-ai-director-laid-off-in-bloodbath-triggered-by-ai-push-asked-to-stop-work-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI director laid off in bloodbath triggered by AI push: \u2018Asked to stop work immediately\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is considered Microsoft&#8217;s largest round of layoffs since 2023, the company decided to fire 6,000 employees, which makes up about 3% of its workforce. A director of AI who has been impacted has taken to X to share about the \u201cbittersweet news\u201d. In her post, she recalled that the employees who were fired were \u201casked to stop work immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is considered Microsoft&#8217;s largest round of layoffs since 2023, the company decided to fire 6,000 employees, which makes up about 3% of its workforce. A director of AI who has been impacted has taken to X to share about the \u201cbittersweet news\u201d. In her post, she recalled that the employees who were fired were \u201casked to stop work immediately\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}